Pick Your Poison, Wednesday

[witchoftheflesh]

Adrian was in a good mood. Adrian had been in a damn good mood ever since 3MD. And Parents' Weekend was coming up and he didn't know for sure that it meant that his mother and aunts would be visiting, but they also hadn't said they weren't, so Adrian couldn't help but be hopeful that they'd show up again.

Boston, of course, was hoping that Kitty would once again show up. He was sitting in a sunbeam, once again grooming himself methodically. After all, he needed to look his absolute best for the weekend. Just in case.

Adrian wasn't sure whether Kitty would be returning for a visit and honestly wasn't sure which would be worse for his peace and quiet.

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey was also in a good mood. Funny, that. And while she'd always liked coming in to visit him, it was a little different now.

"Are you busy?" she asked when she came in.

It was the new way that she was excited to see him. That was the difference.

[witchoftheflesh]

"Never too busy for you," Adrian replied with a small grin. "...Granted, I'm not really busy at all, but even so, the notion stands."

[thatwaslucky]

"Good," she smiled back, walking over to him. "Especially when I don't feel like I need to come up with an excuse to come see you."

Not that she ever had, of course! Except that she totally had.

[witchoftheflesh]

"You wouldn't need an excuse to see me anyway," Adrian said. "Since I was always glad to see you..." He trailed off. "Wait, does that mean you did come up with excuses?"

Got there in the end! Good boy.

[thatwaslucky]

"I had a pretty big crush," she admitted, a little shyly.

So, yes.

[witchoftheflesh]

Adrian gave her a slow, crooked smile. "What?" he asked, reaching for her hand to tug her a bit closer. "You didn't think that was a good enough reason on its own?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I was trying not to admit it. I'm really glad I stopped doing that," she said, using the closeness to lean up for a kiss. Because they could do that now.

[witchoftheflesh]

And Adrian was only too happy to accept, his hand warm in hers. "Me too," he murmured before words became more of a later thing.

[thatwaslucky]

She could let it be a quick kiss. But she didn't want to, and she didn't have to, so she slipped her other arm around his waist.

[witchoftheflesh]

There was a limit to what Adrian could get up to while on the clock--but he was also pretty sure that a kiss (or, okay, several kisses) wasn't anywhere near the edge of what that limit was, and so was all too happy to extend that long kiss to a second.

Maybe even a third.

[thatwaslucky]

When she finally pulled back, it wasn't much, and it was very reluctant. "This is a bad place for this," she murmured.

It didn't stop her from another kiss, though. Just a little one, really.

[witchoftheflesh]

"True," Adrian sighed, though he did very gallantly go along with Rey's last stolen kiss there. Because, uh, gentleman or something. Sure. "I suppose behaving is better than getting a withering expression from Pam about making out on company time."

Not that he thought Pam was really going to care much, but she did enjoy giving him shit, like pretty much every other woman in his life.

[thatwaslucky]

"You could always tell her that was your break," Rey said, only half-teasing.

[witchoftheflesh]

"That's an excellent excuse that I will be saving, yup," Adrian said with a laugh. "Brilliant idea as usual, Rey."

She deserved a kiss for genius. Obviously.

[thatwaslucky]

And obviously she had to kiss him back... you know, for kissing her.

"I swear I didn't come just for this," she told him. It was however a giant plus.

[witchoftheflesh]

"Aww, and here I thought I'd finally gotten hot enough to be objectified," Adrian teased. "Breaking my heart here, Rey."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm sorry, have I not been objectifying you enough so far?" Rey laughed.

[witchoftheflesh]

"Apparently you're here for the pleasure of my company and conversation," he pointed out. "So obviously not!"

[thatwaslucky]

"I know. You're right. How terrible of me," she said, feigning seriousness. "What might help you feel properly hot and objectified then?"

Really hard to feign seriousness when you were saying that.

[joan_of_bark]

Pam was practically humming as she walked inside, also for Parents Weekend-related reasons. (It helped hide, just a little bit, that she was clearly favoring one side.) "Good morning."

[witchoftheflesh]

From many people, likely, but Adrian was a Witch of the Flesh.

"Morning, Pam," Adrian said, his eye on her gait. "You seem pretty chipper this morning. What's up?"

[joan_of_bark]

"Harley's spending the weekend here," Pam said, mouth curving. "I do have to move some stuff around upstairs, but..."

It was nice. Having Harley in her space, not just being in Harley's space.

[witchoftheflesh]

"But it's worth it for having Harley time," Adrian said. He got that. "Let me know if you want a hand moving stuff around."

What with that whole 'favoring one side' you had going on there, Pam.

[joan_of_bark]

"I'll be fine," Pam said.

Honey. Please. "Is your family coming?"